arrival of the hobo-sapiens

a few days after danielle and napiqua's visit, another friend from the oregon extension showed up on our doorstep. rachel, my cabinmate from the OE, and her husband andrew are biking up the west coast and then back east to virginia, where they live. they stayed with us for a wonderful five days before heading north to vancouver.

we joked that rachel became noah's second mom while she was here. here she and noah are reading a bedtime story.

we took a mini bike trip down to the harbor (every bike trip seems "mini" now, compared to what andrew and rachel are doing). here's the FV desire, a boat that fishes out of petersburg, alaska. we bought some salmon from these folks, who we know a bit from petersburg and who do all their own processing too, which is cool. aaron also loves that the whole family is involved (parents and three kids)--the boys even wave signs advertising their fish on a busy street corner downtown, and they don't look embarrassed!

here we are at the park at squalicum harbor. i thought noah would be psyched about sliding, but apparently not!

but he did seem psyched to ride his own bike! no more of this chillin'-out-in-the-trailer business for him.

um, here's me getting ready to chow down on some steak.

and aaron chowing down on a mega taco.


rachel helped a TON with the birthday t-shirt project (more on that later). here she is in process (also in all my clothes).

in the spirit of t-shirt making, i made this shirt for rachel. it says, "the revolution will not be motorized," and on the bottom corner there's an outline of a bicycle.

sailing! aaron's friend logan took him, rachel and andrew for a lovely sunday sail on his boat. they had a great time relaxing and getting a few sailing pointers!



we went for a walk up sehome hill to the observation tower. i love the grumpy look on noah's face.

and then, sadly, we said goodbye.


noah thought about going along for the ride, but decided to stay here with us.

and the hobo-sapiens are on the move again!